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"The Failure Notebook" is the debut novel of Argentinian film screenwriter Nicolas Garcobon. The entire novel is written in the form of Pablo's secret diary, describing the protagonist's experience of being kidnapped for seven years and locked in a basement to create a movie script. It mercilessly explores the mediocre daily life and painful madness behind creation. The novelist Pablo turned to film screenwriting because he could not write satisfactory works, and became an unexpected success. After a visit, he was imprisoned in the basement by the famous director Santiago to write. His films with Santiago won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. However, Santiago lied to the outside world that the scripts were all written by him and that he knew the taste, forcing Pablo to write another masterpiece. Facing the blank manuscript paper, Pablo ran out of ideas. Seeing that the deadline for delivering the manuscript is approaching, how can he make something out of nothing and successfully get out of trouble?